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[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> Here, by way of experiment, is a little list that I made a while 
ago
> after some earlier discussions we had here.  How do people feel 
about
> the format?  The only change from standard Biblical Gothic 
orthography
> is the use of 'ng', for the sake of clarity.  In defense of this,
> don't forget that 'ng' does appear as a variant (along with 'gg') 
in
> the manuscripts.  I'm happy to stick with the distinctive 
looking 'gk'
> for /nk/.  

The format seems OK, providing all necessary info except etymology 
or "word history" (you told about this before). But I feel reluctant 
towards –ng-. 
If I remember right, cases where –gg- stands for a geminated [g] are 
relatively few, so we could mark them somehow specially, i.e. 
bliggwan (gg) or the like without spending too much space. 
Using /ng/ would demand also /nk/ and /nq/ and who knows what more – 
for the sake of consistency. Revisionism is dangerous!

> I also suggest that, in arranging words alphabetically, we ignore 
the
> prefix ga- both in nouns and verbs.  Sweet does this in his
> Angli-Saxon Dictionary, which I find very convenient to use.  An
> alternative would be to include ga- nouns under G, and ga- verbs 
under
> the initial letter of their root.  Here I've listed everything else
> alphabetically according to perefixes; an alternative to this 
would be
> to do as Streitberg does, and Braune/Helm, and list verbs with
> derivative prefixes under the initial letter of the root.  This is
> convenient for looking up verbs, since sometimes prefixes are
> interchangeable, but has the disadvantage of separating verbs from
> derivative nouns -- but this might be got around with cross-
referencing.

The Streitberg/Braune system seems to me the best but this is 
because I've got accustomed to it. It's worth asking what are the 
most popular textbooks for studying Gothic and how they organize 
words in their glossaries. Maybe we should arrange an on-line 
questionnaire for list-members. The results would be interesting in 
many other respects too I'm sure.

Below I'm trying to imagine what some of Llama's neologisms could 
mean besides the stated meaning. Not that I am critical towards the 
suggestions.

> boka-leisei, fin.  literature.

And why it's not "librarianship" or "Literaturwissenschaft"?

> faihu-fasteis, mja.  economist.
> faihu-leisei, fin.  finance, economics.

Aha, now I know how you form nomina agentis! But, remembering our 
old discussion where you were defending "cattle" meaning of faihu, 
aren't the suggested words supposed to mean also "farmer" 
and "cattle-breeding science" respectfully?

> gleza-mahts, fi.  electrical power, electricity.

"amber power"? (power to bribe Roman officials by presenting them 
amber jewelry) And what is "electrical"?

> hugi-sahts, fi.  idea.
> qiu-sahts, fi.  film, movie.

What is this –sahts intended to mean?

> stoma-stafs (b), mi.  chemical element.

"element of foundation". A nice word for a construction pile :-)

> tungla-fasteis, mja.  astronomer.
> tungla-leisei, fin.  astronomy.

And what's about "astrology"?

Ualarauans (inmerito ordinatus aduocatus diaboli)

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